There are 4 distinct attachment styles. Here's how each one affects your relationships differently.

 

There are 4 distinct attachment styles. Here's how each one affects your relationships differently.

Securely attached couples tend to have healthy relationships (stock image).Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images

There are four distinct types of attachment style: secure, anxious, and two kinds of avoidant.

Anxious and avoidant people find intimacy more of a struggle than those who are secure.

This is often because of trauma such as neglect, poor parenting, or an abusive relationship.

Even the most reclusive of people need human attachment. That's why solitary confinement is such a successful form of torture — we are simply wired for connection, since the day we were born and and started crying for our mothers.